Urban income inequality in China revisited, 1988-2002

Sylvie Démurger (1, 2) , Martin Fournier (2) , Shi Li (3)

1 HIEBS - Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business Strategy
2 GATE - Groupe d'analyse et de théorie économique
3 School of Economics and Business

Using newly available spatial price deflators, this paper shows that inequality evaluations in the literature overstate the magnitude of inequality and inequality changes in China, as well as the role played by regional differences in the observed inequality rise during
the 1990s.

Mots clés: Inequality; China; Spatial price-deflators; Inequality decomposition

Domaines: Economies et finances

Sylvie Démurger, Martin Fournier, Shi Li. Urban income inequality in China revisited, 1988-2002. Economic Letters, 2006, 93 (3), pp. 354-359. ⟨halshs-00372106⟩